A Prayer

Angels of the Earth, we give thanks for our wonderful fecundity as a species. We give thanks to the mothers who give all and to the fathers for their fierce commitment to the children. May we always love all of our children.

We also give thanks for our growing wisdom to use the most humane methods that we have to limit our numbers to what the Earth can sanely support.

We give our great thanks to the genie spirits of the plants and animals who have given us medicines and taught us how to live. We also give thanks for our own human genius which has invented ever safer and more effective medical techniques for contraception and abortion.

We can feel you spirits of our ancestors and spirits of our baby angels. You swim like great leviathans and cavort like water babies in our genetic pool. We thank you for watching over us as guardians and messengers. Through you we have achieved amazing things as a species. We are grateful for our successes and atone for our failures.

Bless us O Earth, and help us to realize that Earth is a precious Island in space that we must care for above every other thing.